A goal-gag offered to Burnley forced Arsenal to a draw (1-1) at the poorly classified on Saturday at the opening of the 27th day of the Premier League, which leaves the Gunners still far from European places.
With 38 points, Londoners are only 10th at 8 points from the top 5 European places, while Burnley, 15th with 30 points, is 7 units ahead of the red zone.
But the Gunners can only blame themselves after this disappointing new result which undermines the momentum that should have arisen from the great victory at Leicester (3-1) last week.
The conceded goal, while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had opened the scoring, on a shot at the near post helped by a small hand fault from Nick Pope (1-0, 6th), was enough to infuriate Mikel Arteta.
Xhaka's blunder
Pressed by the opponent, Bernd Leno had chosen to give the ball to Granit Xhaka back to the game and who returned to his 16 meters.
Instead of playing the ball first, the Swiss midfielder retreated further before attempting a hazardous pass to his left which bounced off Burnley striker Chris Wood to finish at the back (1-1, 39th).
Arsenal can also regret an incredible failure by Nicolas Pépé less than ten minutes from the end, alone seven meters from goals (82nd).
Bad luck got involved Pepe finding the bar (84th) and Dani Ceballos the post in added time, but the match could also have turned in favor of Burnley without two decisive saves from Leno in front of Erik Pieters (78th) and Wood ( 79th).
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